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Steynton or Stainton is a parish in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales, formerly in the hundred of Rhôs and now an area of Milford Haven and in the Community of Tiers Cross. The parish includes the hamlet of Dreenhill, near Haverfordwest. The parish population is about 3,000.
Steynton has a pub, the Horse and Jockey.
Steynton was once a medieval parish and village, with a parish church dedicated to Saints Cewydd and Saint Peter. The oldest parts of the present church may be 14th or 15th century. The church may have had links with Pill Priory, which is about to the south. The church tower was used as a musketry position in the English Civil War action at Pill Fort in Milford Haven. The church is directly in line with St Katherine's church to the south and Johnston church to the north. The parish was about long from north to south, and up to wide from east to west. The ancient parish extended almost as far as Haverfordwest to the north.
Steynton was originally separate from Milford Haven, being about north-north-east of Milford, but Milford Haven has expanded and absorbed it. Steynton is part of the local government community of Miford Haven.
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